Jade Vance is good at some parts of politics and less good at others. He's pretty cerebral, he's pretty engaged in what ordinary voters are sort of asking ensaying. But you know, the kind of basic blocking and tackling of campaigning where you explain or deflect obvious criticisms of you, he's not be there yet. I just want to know, how can you claim to represent apalacha while at the same time being so fundamentally disconnected to it? Not just apalacha, but also people who attend a college like mine? Sure. Well, i don't think i'm so disconnected. Look, man, i im not going to from the fact that i've been very
Liberals turned to J.D. Vance’s book to better understand Donald Trump’s victory. Now the “Hillbilly Elegy” author is turning to Trump to try and win the Republican primary in Ohio’s Senate race.
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